figworthy

Twenty years ago at work, we had a school leaver dumped on us for a year. When he arrived, he'd just sat his A-levels and was getting a years work experience in before heading off to university. 4 straight As, and next stop Cambridge (something STEM, I forget what). What was clear from day 1 was that if it wasn't on the syllabus for the the subjects he'd done, he didn't have a clue about it. Stuff that the rest of us (from a variety of backgrounds) would consider general knowledge was met with a blank expression. Adrian

Are you sure it wasn't the forecat walking across it ? Adrian

Indeed, but without it, and a tightish time scale to get the job done, grabbing the first one out of the bin seemed entirely reasonable. Adrian

Dad had that problem as well with his, but didn't have his tool box to hand, so I had to tow him to work. Following a trip to the local government surplus dealer, a "new" gear lever was bought and installed, at which point we discovered that they came in RHD and LHD versions. Adrian

Down to 25 overnight, and peaked at 35.8 ~1700 today. Air con has been considered a number of times, but rejected mainly on the grounds of the likely running costs (I don't have any hard figures, but the reaction always seems to be that it is expensive). This year it has been down to 1.6 degrees (February). Since May 2015 (when I started taking readings), It's varied between -0.7 (the Beast from the East) to 37.2 (August last year). If anyone is interested, I've got a Raspberry Pi running with a BME280 attached to it, reading every minute. Ah yes, our antipodean friends. That reminds me of a conversation with a guy from Perth many years ago. He was commenting that the temperatures had dropped to 20, so he was having to get some logs in for the fire. Adrian

Times are in UTC, it was a bit warm even at the coolest point.

If you can arrange (in no particular order) a new back, a substantial drop in temperature (34 degrees in there today), and for suppliers to be able to supply again, that'll do for starters and I'll gladly get back to work. Adrian

The motor / gearbox / chuck assemblies are useful for motorising lifts and traversers. Adrian

In theory Figworthy is an active build, but progress is a bit slow glacial at the moment for various reasons. Adrian

The river lies to the north of the canal, and has flooded recently (check out Fishlake). There are a lot of spot heights in that area around the 1-3 m mark. Adrian

Have we looked at seats and benches yet ? Adrian

Given the Land Rover's origins, Wilks Farm ? Adrian

Thanks. Nothing moves quickly around here, so there is no great urgency. Adrian

I wasn't going to mention steering wheels. primarily because I don't think I've got any pictures of mine post rebuild. Adrian

If it is a picture of restoration in progress, then either of the above two would work, rolled out so that you've got better light to work with. If (and I mean if) you were to add anything else, perhaps the steering column, makes it easier to move it around if you can steer it. However, it would be very delicate at that scale, so I'd be inclined not to add it. Adrian

Hmm, what about : You could fit a handy sized layout in one of those. Adrian

The IIA started out as a bulk head replacement job, but it quickly became obvious that more work needed doing, a full set of outriggers, rear cross member and front ends (the bit the bumper bolts to). Paddock's rings a bell, we mainly used Jackson's at Misson (being relatively local, and an interesting place to visit). Sadly its over 21 years since I parted company with my IIA, I still miss it (and it's still on the road) Adrian

Oh yes. In my youth, I stripped and rebuilt two of them (a IIA and a III), the second one got a chassis transplant as part of the process. With hind sight, the first one should have had one as well. This was well before the days of replacement galvo chassis and coil springs. Adrian

Sort of. Back when I was a student, our next door neighbour was a MG fan (*). In his "standard sized" garage, he had 3 MGs, one a part restored (chassis + body), plus two in bits (chassises hung off the roof, engines under the bench, not sure about the bodies). * IIRC six in total, three old ones in bits, two relatively new MGBs and his wife drove a MG Metro. Adrian

Before the Internet became main stream (and even longer before the rise of anti-social media) our local rag had the unofficial strap line of "Never knowingly right". Hardly surprising that once it had rivals (irrespective of their quality) it went from being daily to weekly. Adrian

Back in the early 70s, when the car registration year started on August 1st, we were on holiday at the back end of August, and came across someone with a "new" Moskvitch (remember those ?) which had the rust showing through the paintwork. Adrian

Not sure if it is what you are thinking about, but in "Great Western Branch Line Modelling" part 2 by Stephen Willams, there is a picture (page 39) of Lechlade station, which appears to fit the bill. Adrian

Ah, I see that someone has mentioned sign posts. I came across this one back in 2017. The roundel on the top gives the county, location and national grid reference, with the finger posts giving the usual directions and distances. Cowgill is a the bottom of the (long) hill from Dent Station. The wall/fence combination may also be of interest. The wooden structure to the left of the post is a notice board ("Local Transport Information"). Adrian

Thanks. I've got one working its way through the erecting shop at the moment. If you don't mind me asking, how have you arranged the pickups for the power, the instructions are a bit vague about it. Adrian

Very nice mon capitain. Is that a High Level Barclay ? Adrian